Be My Side (Completed) ✔

2. My mom's pendant

My mom comes out like a beauty from the hospital. I don't understand anything but I start running to my mom. Kissing my mom energizes me. Her kiss makes me feel that I have won everything in the world. I am still feeling the same warmth from her hug, which I have missed in this meantime. I can't imagine losing my mom even in my dreams. I don't want to give up on this matter. 

"Love you mom", I shud tears. 

She comforts me in her arms, Caressing on my back, and says, "It's okay, dear. No more worries. I'm here with you. Mom is fine and good. It's okay." She even kisses me with absolute affection.

I'm feeling fresh like a jar filled with full of delight. My mom is with me now. I don't want to ask my mom where she has gone before? But I want to ask her to be by my side forever.

After passing a few days, finally, I'm going to the park with my mom. It is one of my favorite places that I always like to visit with my mom. 

"Come, dear, sit beside me," she calls me by waving her hand with an affable and cheerful smile. 

I run to her like a little puppy and sit on her lap. She draws me closer to her. 

I ask, "Mom? Are you planning to leave me again?" Her smile in response to my question leads me to strange thoughts. 

Taking out her pendant from her neck, "My big boy, here is my love to guard you more closer here onwards" keeping on my neck she says, "Mom is going to be with you forever. Never take out this pendant from your neck. It is a substitution of my place in my absence. Nick is going to listen to his mom, right?" 

"Of course, mom." 

But I feel confused and unable to comprehend the meaning of her words, 'her absence', I ask her again innocently, "Mom, what do you mean of your absence?" 

She says, "This pendant has been my guardian after your grandparents' death. I think it's time to give you. Whenever you feel that you are missing your mom then hold this pendant and remember me by closing your eyelids. I'll appear in front of you". 

"Really, mom?" I'm totally excited to hear her answer. 

With a beam on her lips, she says, "Yes, dear." She comforts me with her words.

I say, "But still, I think I don't need it now, 'cause you're with me. I'm going to remove it." I place my hands on the chain and try to remove it. Immediately, she stops me. 

My mom doesn't want me to remove the pendant it seems. 

She says, "Nick? Don't do that. Promise me. Actually, mom can't stay by your side all the time, right? At school and when you go out then maybe I can't be by your side. That's why I'm giving this pendant to stay along with you. You've your angel doll fairy also". 

"Yes, mom. Okay, then I'll promise you," I assure her. 

My answer makes her happy. We both keep on playing in the park and finally return to our home. My mom wants me to be a brave and good boy all the time. I want to be as she wants. I love my mom so much.

On the next day, when I'm having my breakfast, dad comes to me and asks, "Nick dear? Don't you want to go to a school excursion?" 

"With my friends? I love to go." For a moment I feel excited. 

With sudden silence, I turn to my mom and ask her. "May I go, mom?" 

She encourages me with a smile, "Yes, you have to enjoy with your friends, right?" 

"Yes, mom. Then I'm gonna miss you." replies cutely. 

Mom takes me into her warm arms and says, "Miss you too, Nick dear." 

Even though my heart says after looking into her eyes, "Something is wrong. Don't go, leaving your mom", I have decided to go on the excursion.

After two days, now, I'm coming back home after enjoying a lot in the excursion. It's time to meet my mom. I'm very curious to take my favorite tight hug from her. I'm feeling exhilarated to see her. 

"Dad? Where are we going?" I point my index finger. "I think our home is on the right side. Then, why our car going on the left side?"

Again my dad remains calm. Every single beat sound of my heart, I can hear clearly. His silence is driving me crazy.

My father gets down from the car and asks me to come out. Holding my right hand with at most pressure, he leads me to my beloved mom. We halt at a tomb. My mom...she's resting in the tomb without considering my feelings all this time. I stand still by staring at her, in silence. I feel frightful and even my heart pounds fast like never before. "Did she.....Did she leave me, dad?" My tears fall on my cheeks and then on my bosom.